Growing media sales give January figures a boost
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It’s a good job that the really keen gardeners don’t mind the cold weather. Considering the big variance in temperatures year-on-year during January, it would be expected there would be an overall drop in volumes, down 8%. But, leading the way in the GTN Bestsellers charts are Growing Media sales, up 7% on January 2014 and up 42% on 2013.
As we regularly comment in GTN Bestsellers, that is a great indicator of future gardening activity. When the ‘keenies’ get growing early that usually leads to a good gardening Spring. With Westland’s Jack’s Magic leading the way in the GTN Growing Media Top 50 for every week of 2015 to date, we’re all looking forward to that ‘magic’ spreading to all garden centre sales after this period of snowy weather has cleared and temperatures start to rise. GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year... - Garden Products – down 17%
- Veg-2-Gro Products – down 21%
- Growing Media – up 26%
- All items index – up 1%
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